a lighthouse keeper in me

she/her (call me Jen) | sometimes i write |  https://archiveofourown.org/users/HoldHerTightAndSayHerName/works

[totallydonotcare]

[listen-and-observe]

[filmnoirsbian]

Like I’m at the point where parasocial relationships are actively harmful. Celebrity culture is actively harmful. Putting someone on a pedestal, anyone but especially a stranger, is actively harmful. To yourself, to how you interact with others, to how you interact with media. Stan culture is actively harmful. Thinking someone is good at their craft =/= genuinely believing you know someone you absolutely do not and can never know.

[mrdarcy]

"To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."

[seongpinkhwa]

i just think that the double standard with how everyone (and i'm not just talking ab the west btw) has treated the ukraine invasion vs issues literally anywhere else is insane. and no i'm not just talking about the straight up racist journalists (although that was also . whew ! shocked but not surprised) but rather how it seems that this time around, everyone seems to understand that you can't 'separate business / art from politics'. remember when a muslim soccer player spoke up against the atrocities that the chinese government perpetuates against the uyghur muslims and then arsenal terminated his contract because they are 'apolitical as an organization'? and yet manchester united players standing up for ukraine have been applauded for it. remember when iceland held up the palestine flag during eurovision as a show of solidarity and they were fined 5000 euros for it? and yet russia is banned from this year's contest.

and i know white people are going to misunderstand this on purpose, so i'm just stating this upfront: i completely support ukraine, and i think it's important that russia is shown, on a world platform, that they cannot get away with the invasion of a sovereign state. but the fact that suddenly, mixing politics with sport, business and art has become the new normal and socially acceptable because it's europe and the west and not filthy violent brown people is just too ironic for me to not point out. and btw if anyone starts talking about the 'oppression olympics' or wtv to discredit the very real differences between the treatment of white & brown people on a global level and the dehumanization of asians i will smash your head into a brick wall.

[holdhertightandsayhername]

Amen.

[dkreedy]

From @shirien.creates on Insta.

[louisebichan]

Loch Lomond

[catchymemes]

[quotemadness]

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[stan-of-many]

Me, reading my scraps of fics in my notes app: oh, that’s good, I really like that. Someone should finish that.

[night-at-the-barre]

[wrongtrainrightstation]

Holding hands (2)

[shetalkstorainbowss]

Even when you didn’t know it, you saved my life.

[luthienne]

With all the suffering there is, you begin to feel ashamed of taking yourself and your moods so seriously. But you must continue to take yourself seriously, you must remain your own witness, marking well everything that happens in this world, never shutting your eyes to reality. You must come to grips with these terrible times and try to find answers to the many questions they pose. And perhaps the answers will help not only yourself but also others.

Etty Hillesum, from a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (translated from the Dutch by Arnold J. Pomerans)

[aleenaaashhh]

Jane Austen's works are timeless classics because she knew the real horrors in life are having to listen to men who think they're better than you and receiving unannounced visitors.

[quotemadness]

“Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.”

— Sarah Kay

[upward-bound]

when do you feel the most beautiful?

when a dog pulls on his leash on the sidewalk because he wants to come say hi to me